"ghoully" meaning in English

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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1963, Philip Wylie, chapter 15, in Triumph, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 267–268:",
          "text": "Maybe you think it would be ghoully to begin our love-life in what may become our graves.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1988 March, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, “Gail Harmmon”, in Taji’s Syndrome, New York, N.Y.: Popular Library, →ISBN, page 17:",
          "text": "Dad gave me this ghoully lecture about all the designer drugs. He’s worse than the cops that come to the school.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, James Gelsey, chapter 6, in Scooby-Doo and the Ghostly Gorilla (Scooby-Doo), New York, N.Y.: Little Apple Paperbacks, Scholastic Inc., published January 2002, page 39:",
          "text": "“But we didn’t have any bananas,” Shaggy protested. “That ghoully gorilla jumped out of the trees before we could eat any.”",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Hiawyn Oram, “One Night to Fright Night”, in My Unwilling Witch Gets a Makeover (Rumblewick’s Diary), London: Orchard Books, →ISBN, page 7:",
          "text": "Bright Night is the night we dress up as ghastly ghoully characters like witch-hunters and vampire dogs and gather in the Narrow Avoid to celebrate who we are by trying to scare each other witless!",
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  "word": "ghoully"
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      "form": "more ghoully",
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      "form": "most ghoully",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1963, Philip Wylie, chapter 15, in Triumph, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 267–268:",
          "text": "Maybe you think it would be ghoully to begin our love-life in what may become our graves.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988 March, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, “Gail Harmmon”, in Taji’s Syndrome, New York, N.Y.: Popular Library, →ISBN, page 17:",
          "text": "Dad gave me this ghoully lecture about all the designer drugs. He’s worse than the cops that come to the school.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "2001, James Gelsey, chapter 6, in Scooby-Doo and the Ghostly Gorilla (Scooby-Doo), New York, N.Y.: Little Apple Paperbacks, Scholastic Inc., published January 2002, page 39:",
          "text": "“But we didn’t have any bananas,” Shaggy protested. “That ghoully gorilla jumped out of the trees before we could eat any.”",
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        },
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          "ref": "2008, Hiawyn Oram, “One Night to Fright Night”, in My Unwilling Witch Gets a Makeover (Rumblewick’s Diary), London: Orchard Books, →ISBN, page 7:",
          "text": "Bright Night is the night we dress up as ghastly ghoully characters like witch-hunters and vampire dogs and gather in the Narrow Avoid to celebrate who we are by trying to scare each other witless!",
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